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Among the places hit: parts of Miami, Dallas, Detroit, Reno, suburban Philadelphia and a few towns in upstate New York. New Jersey Bell reported 25 acts of sabotage during the first three days of the strike, including a cut cable that disrupted service to a state police barracks and Fort Dix, a major Army base. Though direct evidence linking striking workers to the crimes is scarce, they are naturally the prime suspects. In one case, a striking Southern Bell employee and his grown son were arrested for pulling the wires out of a telephone box in Gainesville...
Buttner's family is very poor. Her parents had to move first to Colorado and then to Reno. Nevada to find work, because nothing was left for them in Watsonville. She enjoys none of the luxuries many Harvard students take for granted Financial problems have daunted Buttner through out her Harvard career. To support herself, she's occupied a slew of jobs from secretarial work to telephone fundraising to narrating a national radio show to co-producing a local TV show, "Cambridge...
...meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item appears in the catalogue under the heading Dreams...
...page ad from Reno Sports Service proclaims the Nevada group "America's "Lock Champs." They claim to have been 100 percent the past four seasons--"documented." Quite simply, "Reno Sports Service has NEVER LOST. 'LOCK' game" in that time. "For those readers unfamiliar with the term, a 'LOCK' is a game which for 'certain inside reasons' is as close as humanly possible to a sure thing. These game are 'LEAD PIPE CINCHES.' Our remarkable ability to select these 'LOCK' games him drive the sports book operators 'right up the wall and they have NO WAY OF STOPPING YOU FROM MAKING...
...Willy enlists the help of Howard's girl, Benita (Bette Midler). Together, they plot against Howard. Willy because he will lose his job it Howard wins big one more time, and Benita because she's tired of Howard's drunken abuse and of life in they aluminum trailer outside Reno...